Hillary Clinton urged Americans to head to the polls this November while makeup free and wearing a face mask with the word ‘Vote’ written on it.
On Saturday, Clinton showed off the ‘must-have accessory for spring’ in a photo shared to Instagram and Twitter.
The former secretary of state embraced the natural look while she stood with her arms crossed and donned a protective ‘Vote’ face mask.
‘No makeup? No pantsuit? No problem,’ Clinton, 72, wrote.
‘I’ve got the must-have accessory for spring.
I’m wearing a mask (and voting!) for my country, my community, and my grandchildren. #MaskingForAFreind.’
Hillary Clinton (pictured) sported a black face mask with the word ‘Vote’ written across it in a recent Instagram post
Clinton urged Americans to vote in the upcoming election after formally endorsing Joe Biden for president
Her message has garnered just over 612,000 likes in 24 hours.
Clinton’s call to vote comes after she officially endorsed candidate Joe Biden for president in the upcoming 2020 election.
She remained mum about her any endorsements throughout the tumultuous primaries, but appeared confident in her formal announcement last week.
‘I am thrilled to be part of your campaign, not only to endorse you, but to help highlight a lot of the issues that are at stake in this presidential election,’ Clinton told the former vice president, who introduced her as ‘the woman who should be president of the United States.’
Clinton’s stamp of approval comes amid mounting pressure for Biden to personally address accusations made by a former staffer, Tara Reade, that he sexually assaulted her on Capitol Hill when he was serving as a U.S. senator.
During the virtual town hall, she asked viewers to image having a ‘real president’ in an unsubtle jab at President Trump.
‘Think of what it would mean if we had a real president, not just somebody who plays one on TV, but somebody who gets up every morning worried about the people that he’s responsible for leading during this crisis,’ she said.
Hillary Clinton (right) endorsed Joe Biden (left) on a livestreamed event where she talked about their 25-year work history and friendship
‘Think of what it would mean if we had a real president, not just somebody who plays one on TV,’ she added mocking Trump, a former reality TV star.
During the virtual hall Clinton also criticized Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected 1,160,519 Americans and killed 67,173.
‘I want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president,’ Clinton said.
Joe Biden (left) is seen campaigning for Hillary Clinton (center) when she was running for president in 2016
Clinton and other officials have criticized President Trump (pictured) for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic that savaged the US
‘Just think of what a difference it would make right now, if we had a president who not only listened to the science, with facts over fiction, but brought us together.
‘Show the kind of compassion and caring that we need from our president, and which Joe Biden has been exemplifying throughout his entire life.’
Her support for Biden has resulted in backlash from Tara Reade, a former Biden Senate staffer who accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s.
Reade said that the assault occurred after she was told to deliver a gym bag to the then-senator. Reade said she tracked down Biden on Capitol Hill and he remembered her name.
‘And then we were alone. And it was the strangest thing. There was no, like, exchange really, he just had me up against the wall,’ she said.
She said she was wearing a work skirt, but no pantyhose.
‘He just had me up against the wall and the wall was cold,’ she said. ‘His hands were on me and underneath my clothes. He went down my skirt and then up inside it and he penetrated me with his fingers. He was kissing me at the same time,’ she said.
She said that when she ‘pulled back,’ Biden ‘looked annoyed.’
Reade said Biden said to her, ‘Come on man, I heard you liked me.’
Reade posted an image on social media of what she looked like in 1993, the year she alleged Biden sexually assaulted her. A new clip has emerged that appears to back her claims that she told her mother, brother and a friend about the alleged assault when it happened in 1993
‘He implied that I had done this,’ she told the podcast host.
At first Reade didn’t want to mention the other quote that got stuck in her head, but then she told Halper what it was.
‘You’re nothing to me,’ she claimed the senator said to her. ‘Nothing.’
Reade said that she had attempted to bring up her concerns about the alleged assault to her superiors in Biden’s office but got nowhere, a claim that the new clip of her mother appears to back.
Reade, a lifelong democrat, told Fox News that she voted for Clinton in the 2016 election but feels slighted by the swift dismissal of her allegations.
‘I voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. I voted for her in the primary. I’m a lifelong Democrat,’ said Reade.
‘But yet, what I see now is someone enabling a sexual predator and it was my former boss, Joe Biden, who raped me.’
Biden’s campaign has explicitly denied Reade’s accusation – but there are fresh calls for him to address it personally, with several new sources corroborating the ex-staffer’s account in media reports this week.
A 1993 clip released last week showed Reade’s mother asking TV host Larry King if they should come forward with allegations against a ‘prominent senator.’
The 1993 clip shows an anonymous caller form California speak to Larry King about her daughter’s problem with a ‘prominent senator’. Reade said it is her mother’s voice
Reade (pictured): ‘Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct’
The video appeared to back Reade’s claims that she told her mother about the sexual harassment related to Biden 27 years ago.
There is no mention of sexual assault in the clip, but Reade confirmed it was her mother’s voice and continued to double down on her accusations.
‘Hillary Clinton has a history of enabling powerful men to cover up their sexual predatory behaviors and their inappropriate sexual misconduct,’ Reade went on.
‘We don’t need that for this country. We don’t need that for our new generation coming up that wants institutional rape culture to change.’
Clinton’s endorsement comes as Biden has all-but locked up the Democratic nomination and received a flurry of endorsements from prominent party members including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday, and earlier this month President Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren, another 2020 rival.
Those endorsements were prompted by Bernie Sanders dropping out of the race and endorsing Biden five days later.
But while Biden’s sealed the primary up, his campaign has had to deal with the drip, drip, drip from Reade’s claims.
‘I will not be smeared, dismissed or ignored. I stand in truth and I will keep speaking out,’ Reade said to Fox.